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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-03-15

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-03-15 page 1

If VOL. XXXIX. COLUMBUS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1878. NO. G3. wMJIT lYtrrtrsi' mm. mU -M B mm mm mm n a V wv Y 1 fi mm i una BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS. PrlutrH,BliidrM, Stationers and liCKnl Itlauk Publishers. BOOK BINDING Ol every Vtm-iptwn. by the Edition or Single Volume. Opera House Building (Up Stairs), ap4 COLUMBUS. ' IsAIAH PlMAHB. - ROPNBY FOOB. PILLARS & FOOS, Attorneys-at-Law, Koom No. 0, Pioneer Block, febsdtf wit COLTJHBUS, OHIO. SPRING AND SUMMER Woolens GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 107 MOUTH UIGU ST. nulSly WALL PAPERS ! FOR THE REASON OF 1878! Ia addition to the regular lines, we have this spriog made a SPEC I A L T Y Of the fine goodi manufactured by the famous bouse of FR. UK OK & 00. The-e goods compete successfully with the finest Knglish Papers in the ENGLISH MARKET, and are tho most popular made in this country. GEO. W. G LEAS ON, SOUTH HIGH ST., sflp2D6mip onpnsiio the Capitol. v IIH.-i High, Pearl mill Chapel tit. , M. I OH1.V. A. W. FRANCISCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBl.t81ir.IIS AMI rnOPHIETIIHS. A. W. FIIANOIMO, . . General Manager LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. . Congress. March 14 Senate Bill passed: Granting a pension to the widow ot Keur AdmtrHi Wilkes Bills introduced: Paying customs duties and other debtB duo the United States in legal tender notes; regulating passenger fare and freight traffic on the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways; constructing a narrow-gauge road from Bismarck to the Black Hills Adjourned till Monday. House Bills passed : Limiting tho number of special attorneys to assist District Attorneys to one; extending to three years the time ior withdrawing distilled liquors from bond A bill making contingent appropriations for the House was reported and passed The Massachusetts contested election case was called up, but no definite action waa taken. General Assembly. March 14. Senate Bills passed: Au-tlmrizinir Wavdr county to build a court house; reorganizing the infirmary board of Hnmilton county; authorizing mo Attorney General and Auditor of State to settle claims due the Stale; changing the name of a Zanes-ville church; amending the Ohildren'B Home act in reference to the manner of taking the vote in establishing such homes; authorizing Green Springs to erect a town hall and engine house; allowing Mahoning county to transfer funds; enabling the Commissioners of Hamilton county to make a fill; limiting the comnensition of township trustees and clerks; extending mechanics' lien to two years. Mouse Bills passed: Assessing a tax on dogs and providing for its collection; au-. . tuoriziog Leesburg to issue bonds; authorizing the city of Hamilton to expend one-half its bridge fund; reconstructing the Cincinnati board of aldermen; dividing election nrecincts: amending the ditch law in Sandusky, Summit and Wood counties; incorporating literary associations; amending the challenge clause ' ol the jury law; authorizing jnarsnauviiie, Wayne county, to purchase a tire engine, construct cisterns and build an engine house Bill introduced: Providing bow the Xema tax of 1877 Bhall be distributed. Vmiicad'ons for Tennessee and tlie Ohio Valley and Lower Lake Eegion Rising barometer! colder north to west winds and partly cloudy weather, except preceded by rain areas or snow in the cast district, gradually followed from westward by falling barometer and winds shifting to warmer, southeast or southwest. Gold closed in New York yesterday at 101. Go to the primaries. Councilman Hull stands for renomi nation in the First ward. Charles G. Debhleb is suggested by his friends for Council in the First ward. Dh. Flowers and W. 8. Ide will give epirit to the contest for Council in the Third ward this evening. George Donaldson, Assistant Secre- tary of the Republican State Executive committee, 1b a cindidate for the nomination for Council in the Second ward. It 1b thought there will be noma electricity in the primaries in this, as well as in several other wards. A report has been circulated about the city to the effect that General Samuel Thomas, if elected to the City Council from the Second ward, will not give the office proper attention. Tho roputation of Gen. Thomaa and the fact that he has consented to be a candidate, are sufficient guarantees that he will attend to his du ties as Councilman with ability, faithfulness and honesty. The .Republican votera of Columbua are officially notified, elsewhere in this paper, to meet in their respective wards this evening at 7j o'clock and nominate candidates for ward officers, and Bolect delegates to a City Convention to be held in the City Hall to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. A general attendance of votera will be in the interest of the good government of the city. The primary meetings may be said to be- at the bottom of our municipal management. There is where the people get in their voice first, and they should be emphatic. Turn out strong, nominate candidates who will command by their worth and ability the popular enthusiasm, and then put them through on their merits at the April elec tion. There ia some excellent timber up in the various wards. Make the nominations with a vim and popular support that will encourage tho nominees to "go it" on the home stretch. The 1819 reunion mil. As a matter of particular interest to a large number of persons in all sections of the country we subjoin the text of the act amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812 and their widows, and for other purposes : Be it enacted, etc . lhat the secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men, without regard to color, including militia and volunteers, of the military and naval service of the United States, who served for fourteen days in the war with Great Britain of 1812, or who were in any engagement, and were honorably discharged, and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted and drafted men. Sec. 2. That this act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate ol eight dollars per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pen sion of less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference of the pension now received (if leBS than eight dollars per month) and eight dollars per month. Pensions under tins act Bball be at the rate of eight dollars per mouth, except as herein provided, and Bhall be paid to the person entitled thereto, from and after the passage of this act, for and during their natural lives : Provided, That the pensions to widows provided for in this act shall cease when tbey shall marry again. Sec. 3. That before the name ol any person shall be placed upon the pension rolls under this act proofs shall be made, under Buch rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall prescribe, that the applicant is en titled to a pension under this act; and any nerson who shall falsely take any oath re quired to be taken under the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of per jury; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken irom ine roiiB the name of any person when it shall appear by proof satisfactory to him that Buch name was put on said rolls by or through false or fraudulent representations or by mistake as to the right of such person to a pension under this act. The loss or lack of a certificate of discharge shall not deprive the applicant of the benefit of this act, but oilier prool ot the service performed and of an honorable discharge, if satisfactory, shall be deemed sufficient; and when there is no recorded evidence el such service and such discharge the applicant may establish the Bsme by other satisfactory testimony: JYoiiidcd, That when any person has been granted a land warrant under any act of CongreBB for and on account of service in the said war of 1812. such grant shall be ptimo facie evi dence of his service and honorable discharge, so as to entitle him, if living, or his widow, if liebedead.to a pension un der this act ; but such evidence shall not be conclusive, and may be rebutted by evidence that such land warrant was improperly granted. Seo. 4, Tbat all applications for pensions of the classes provided for in this act heretofore or which may hereafter be made shall be considered and decided as though made under this act; and all laws now in force in regard to the manner of paying pensions, and in reference to the punisnmenioi irauus, suan ue Hppiicauic to all claims under the provisions of this act. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to restore to the pension rolls the names of all persons now surviving here tofore pensioned on account ot service in the war of 1812 Ofiiiiust Great Britain, or for service in any of the Indian wars, and whose names were stricken from the rolls in pursuance of the act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to strike from the pension rolls the names of such persons as have taken up arms against the Government, or who have in any manner encouraged the rebels," approved February 4, 1802; and that the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution prohibiting payment by any officer of the Government to any perBon not known to have been opposed to the rebellion and in favor of its suppression," approved March 2, 1867, and section 4716 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the'peraons provided for by this act : Provided, That no money shall be paid to any one on account of pensions for the time during whioh his name remained stricken from the roll. Sec 6. That the surviving widow of any pensioner of the war of 1812, where the name of said pensioner was stricken from the pension-rolls in pursuance of the act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to strike from the penBion-rolU the names of such persons as have taken up arms against the Government, or who have in any manner encouraged the rebels," approved February 4, 180 J, and where, under the existing law, said pensioner died without his name being restored to the rolls, shall be en titled to make claim for a pension as such widow after the paBsageoI thiaact: Pro vided, That no such arrearage shall be paid for any period prior to the time of the removal of the disability of the pensioner: And provided farther, That under this act any widow of a revolutionary soldier who served fourteen days or was in any engagement shall be placed upon the pension-rolls of the United States, to receive a penBion at the rale of $8 per month. Sec. 7. That all laws and claimes of laws in conflict with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved March , 1878. The number of vessels belonging to or bound to or Irom American ports which were lost during February waa 48, the value of the lost vessels, exclusive of their cargoes, being estimated at $835,000. There were wrecked 2 steamerB (one of them the Metropolis), 1 ship, 14 barks, 3 brigs ana ia schooners. BY TELEGRAPH TO THK OHIO STATS JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Proposition to Fay Customs Du ties iu Legal Tender Notes. The Bill to Extend tba Bond Period of Whisky to Thres Tears Passed by the House of Repre' sentatives. Tho Sale of Public Lands to lie Set Aside fur Educational I'niposes A Texas Paolflo Railroad Bill Agreed Upon. Further Revenue Troubles Reported in the South. Till her depredations. Washington, March 14. A report received from Pensacola states that within a radius of seventyfive miles of that place, the public lands have been denuded of more nuioer man in tuo Bme raaius in any other locality in the United States. It is estimated that about sevenlenths of the timber shipped from Peusacola is taken from the public domain, and that $200,000 could be recovered for the Government if the oases were properly prosecuted, educational, The committee on Education and Labor to-day instructed Mr. Goode, Chairman, to report a bill providing that the net proceeds of tho sales of the public lands shall be forever consecrated mid set apart for the education of tho people. The act ia not to have any effect to repeal, impair or suspend any law authorizing the preemption of public lands, or of entry of public lands for homesteads, nor of limiting in any manner the power of Congress to alter or extend the right of homestead upon such lands; nor shall it be held to limit or abridge the power of Congress over the public domain, or interfere with the granting of bounty binds. The Secretary of the Treasury is required, on or before the Slat day of July, each year, to apportion to the several States and territories, and to the District of Columbia, upon a basis of the population of said States and territories, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, the net proceeds of the Bales of publio lands for the previous year; provided that after five years, half of said net proceed?, and after ten years the whole of the Bame, shall be .Bet apart as an educational fund, which said funds shall he invested in bonds of the United States, bearing a rate of interest not leRs than four per centum per annum, both principal and interest payable in coin, the interest on such educational fund only to be appropriated as above provided; and that for the first ten years the distribution of the net proceeds and interest ou the fund to and among the several States, Territories and the District of Columbia shall be made according to the number of their respective population of ten years old and upward, who cannot read and write, aB shown from time to time by the last preceding published census of the United States, the first apportionment to be made on or before July, 1878, when the States and Territories shall be entitled to receive their distributive shareB. Mr. Goode will offer an amendment providing that onefuurth of the moneys appropriated by this bill shall be given to the agricultural colleges and institutions of learning established in accordance with the act ol Congress of July 2, 1862, unless in any case the State Legislature shall otherwise direct. NAVAL APPROPRIATION. The Navy Appropriation bill, recently introduced in the House by Representative Clymer, appropriates the total sum of $14,048,684. Throughout the bill the specific objects of the appropriation are stated. Only one million five hundred thousand dollars are appropriated for the preservation of vessels on stocks or in ordinary, purchase of materials and Btores of all kinds, labor in navy yards and on foreign stations, presevation of materials, purchase of tools, wear, tear and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the navy on a line of construction and repair, incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage. REVENUE TROUBLES. Collector Bravton, at Greenfield, South Carolina, telegraphB the Commissioner of Internal Kevenue, be bas organized a force of thirty men who are now on their way to Pickens county. Redmond with thirty men followed Captain Hoffman's force of eight men all day Tuesday. They being powerless to contend with Redmond's gang retreated to Easley, waiting reinforcements. Redmond has ordered the citizens at their peril not to furnish food or Bhelter for the revenue officers. Warrants will be procured for the jail breakers and other revenue culprits. They will either be captured or become fugitives. THE TEXAS PACIFIC. The Senate sub committee in charge of various bills concerning trans-continental communication, on or near the thirty-second parallel, reported favorably on the Texas-Pacifio project, and submitted to the full committee a copy ot tbe bill agreed upon by the House Pacific Railroad committee. The full committee he-can diacusBion of the measure and ad journed until Tuesday next, when final action is expected, ine Buo-committeeiB composed of Senators Matthews, Sanders, Dorsey, Barnum and Ransom. THE FOUR PER CENT, LOAN. The Secretary of the Treasury Bays the report he has decided to sell a large amount of four and a half per cent, bonds at par in gold is erroneous. He had made no such decision. The total aubacription to the four per cent, bonds since the date of the Treasury circular, January 10, advertising the loan, is three and a half millions. ine Bunscnpiion for tho present month, to date, aggregated half a million. To-day's subscription did not go above $16,000. UNION PACIFIC DIRECTORY. The terms of office of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific railroad expired last Sundav. The President and Secretary Schurz had a conference to-day on the subject of new appointments to fill tbe Hoard, lheir names will be sun- mitten to the Cabinet to-morrow. It 1b probable tbat Chadwick only will be re appointed. James F. Wilson is not a candidate for reappointment. G. B Smyth, af Iowa, will be his successor. THE TARIFF. Tho committee on Ways and Means made a number more changes in the Tariff bill to-day. Among them salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages, 12 cents per 100 pounds; in bulk, 8 cents per 100 pounds. New type and type metal, 20 per cent, ad valorem. NEW DOLLARS RECEIVED. Ten thousand new silver dollars were received at the Treasury to-day, and about three thousand dollars have beet paid out in exchange for gold. NOMINATIONS. The President has nominated the following United States Consuls: Thomas M. Dowson, of California, at Opita; W. T. Rosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Auck land. XLVlh congress First Session. 8INATB. A number of pension billa were passod during the morning hour, among them one granting $50 a month to tbe widow of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes. Mr. Toorhees introduced a bill providing for the payment of all customs duties, and all other debts duo the United States, in legal lender notes at par, excerit in cases where it is otherwise expressly stipulated on the face of the obligation or contract. Referred.Mr. Teller introduced a bill to regulate passenger fare and freight traffic on tbe Denver Pacific railway nud Kansas Pacific railway. Referred. Consideration was then resumed of unfinished business, being the bill in regard to the Pacific railroad sinking fund, and Mr. Matthews spoke in favor of the bill reported bv the committee on Railroads, and gave no tice that he would hereafter submit it as substitute for that reported by the Judiciary committee. Mr. Gordon, by request, introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from Bismarck to the Black mils. neterreu. The Consular and Diplomatic Annronria tion bill was then received from the Honse of Representatives, and referred to the com mittee on Appropriations. The Vice President announced his signa ture to the House bill for the relief of Wil liam A. Hammond, late Surgeon General of the Army, and it now goea to the President lor bia signature. Mr. Christiancy took the floor to speak on Monday on the Sinking Fund bill, and tho senate adjourned till lual uuy. IIOUSI. During the morning hour was discussed a bill reported from the committee on Kxpen- ditures in ine Department ol justice, limiting the number of special attorneys appointed to assist District Attorneys to one, aud limiting tbe fee to two thousand dollars. The bill finally passed and the House went iuto committee of the Whole on the bill extending to three years time for withdrawing distilled liquors from bond Air. bavler stated ine purposo ot ine reso lution, that its principal object was to extend tbe bond period of whisky to three yeats instead of one year as now provided by law. In other words, it was to give to alcoholic spirits manufactured in this country the same privileges that are given to liquors imported from Europe and put in bonded warehouses. Mr. Conger sud this resolution was an old acquaintance. Its face was familiar to hiin ami the House. It had been thero before. Its principal claim at tbat time whs that the expectation of a change in the tx on distilled spirits wholly discouraged business and threatened with loss and bankruptcy those engaged in business. That claim had been promptly met by the adoption of a res olution that it was me solemn judgment ot the Housb tbat it was inexpedient to change the tax on whisky. Now under the apparently stimulating power of four years' old whisky, tbe House was asked to extend the time for paying ths tax, not three months, as before proposed, but years. He could not account for tho boldness of the movement. Was it true, as they were informed on the other aide of the House, tbat the Treasury needed all the revenue it could get. and that the expenditures must be cut down in all departments of the Government? If that were bo, how could the Government aflbrd to postpone for three years the tax on distilled spitits? Ho would leave it to tbe gentlemen whose districts wero threatened with bankruptcy bv the tariff bill being ooncocted in secret in a corner of the Capitol by a committee which forbade approach, and kept out all infor mation. The manufacturers of whisky seemed to think there was a marvelous tendency to favor whisky iu the House. Laughter. There seemed to be an opinion lhat it was safe to appeal to Congress to favor the whisky intorest and to destroy all other intereatB. Mr. Buuer smd be understood tho bill thoroughly, and waB quite ready to agroa to its general object aa a matter of relief, and tbat waa to lend at five per cent, for two years an amount of money equal to the tax on whisky. The Government could borrow money at tour per cent., and this would bo a gain of one per cent. That was all there was in it, but he was opposed to anything that looked like favoring speculation. If the promoters of the measure did not mean that, they would agree to an amendment which he proposed to offer to the third section. That amendment waa providing that the tax or duty paid on all distilled spirits when tie same are witbdrawn. snail be the amount of duty or tax which would have been paid if paid when such distilled spirits were put in bond. Mr. Sayler stated that that was provided in the resolution. He had no objection to it. except that it was mere surpluses. Mr. Butler well, it you admit lhat amendment, I withdraw all objections to the lesolution. Mr. Lapham regarded the measure as a proposition to lend to the distillers for two years, at oper cent.,tne vast revenues which they pay to the Treasury, und that at a peri od when the revenues were diminishing, when the Houso was told that it will be difficult to balance tbe book at the end of the year, when gentlemen on the other side were crving Hconomy. economy, relorm. reform." Such a-proposition could not have bis annroval. Mr. Fort feared tho object of the bill was to give time for tbe whisky men to obtain a reduction ot tne tax. Mr. Harrison opposed tbe bill not only as being class legislation, but as Deing in tavor of a certain class ot whiBky and not the whole interest. It was for the benefit of that whisky which waa improved by age; the kind of whisky which brought an . im mense revenue into the Treasury, and it would not receive the slightest beuetit from it. Mr. Burchard supported the bill. It did not endanger the revenue of tho country. It was not so much in the interest of the dis tiller as in the interest of the revenue. Mr. Fort supported the bill. He denied that it would reduce tho revenue, because the revenue came not froal the amount put into bond, but from the consumption. It might cause a temporary reduction, but in the end all the tax would be received. The general debate having closed, the bill was read Dy sections tor amendment. Mr. Butler offered the amendment suggested by him and it was agreed to. Mr. Conger moved to make the interest 7 per cent, inatead of 5. Rejected. Mr, Conger then moved to make tho interest 6 per cent. Reiected 71 to 51. The committee then rose and reported tbe bill and tbe amendments, which were agreed to and the bill passed yeas 118, nays 116. Mr. Sayler then moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed and moved to lay that motion on the table, on which Mr. Conger, owing to the closeness of the vote, called tor tne yeas and navs. which were ordered and resulted yeoa 122, nays hid; so me motion to reconsider was laid on tne table. Mr. Foster, from the committee on An propriations, reported a bill appropriating -r-.TO.uuu ior a contingent mna ot me House. rasseo. Mr. Springer called nn the renort of the committee on ElectionB on the Massachusetts contested election case, report of the majority being that Dean, the contestant, is entitled to the seat, and tbat of the minority being in favor of Field, the sitting member. After the opening speech by Mr. Springer, the House adjourned. FOREIGN. The Attitude of England and the Proposed Congress. Turkish Recruits to ba Sent at Ones to Constantinople. A. Portion of (lie Servian Army Disbanded. Conflict Between the Vatican and Government Feared. General Grant Lunches with tho King of Italy. Ine Enster Heceas of Parliament aud I lie congress. London, March 14. In the House of Commons this alternoon, Bir minora Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that if the military bill and certain estimates are papsed, the House will rise the 16th or 18th of April, till the Olh of May for the bastcr recess. Ihe Chancellor also stated he will introduce tbe budget the 4th of April. In reply to a question, the Chancellor said the Government has agreed to take part in the Congress. The Uovernment is now communicating with the various powers regarding the terms on which we enter the Congress. The Chancellor also said he could not enter into details, but he might say that in the Congress each power would maintain liberty of action. It was intended the majority should bind the minority. England will maintain her views in Congress and will require before entering it that every article of the treaty of peace shall be placed before the Congress in such a manner that theC-u-graB can judge whether the articles are to be accepted or not. Ilio Altitude ol Knelond and Hie l'ouErei,s. 6t. Petersburg. March 14. The Agence RuBse, commenting on the Berlin dispatch, intimating that sscret arrangements have been made between Russia and Turkey, says: Russia is not so confiding as to conclude secret clauses with Turkey, when she knows that the slightest transactions are communicated to Minister Layard. In regard to England's claim of right to examine the whole treaty at Ihe Con gress aud withdraw from meeting on certain contingencies, the Agence points out that every power will enter the Congress with full liberty as to the attitude it may assume relative to the claims brought for ward and the decisions arrived at. ilosuion to Lord Lyons Ileprc- souiIuk Eniclnnd nt file Congress. IjOndon. March 14. In the House of Commons last night. Sir Robert Peel ob jected to Lord Lyons representing En gland in the Congress, because ins opinions were opposed to those of Layard and Sir Henry Elliott. Sir Stafford North-e jte replied that the Government and not Lord Lyons was responsible tor England's course at the Congress. fjllildstone's Cnddldncy. London, March 15. Gladstone, reply ing to renewed invitations to stand for Leeds, points out that he may remain a representative of Greenwich two years longer. He declares he has positively de cided to lake no measure at present to become a candidate of any new constituency. It is thought that Gladstone will undoubtedly be returned from the flint boroughs unopposed. Edk1Ii.1i I.cciHlnllon. London. March 14 In the House of Lords to-night, the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction bill passed tho third reading. In the House ot commons, J3ourite, Under Foreign Secretary, replied to the inquiry, that the Government still thought that in view of the cauBe of breaking off of diplomatic relations with Mexico, the initiative lor their renewal couiu not come from England. Tbe Anstrlun Vote of Credit. Vienna. March 14 The Budget com mittee of the Austrian delegation to day commenced the discussion of the sixty million vote of credit. Count Andrassy stated that sixty million was the maximum amount that would be required. The committee rejected the demand of the War Minister for oo,uud norms ior mil itary stores. L'nnlllct With Ihe Vallcan Feared. Rome. March 14. The Government's action touching the Bishopric of Salerno must lead to a conflict with the Vatican. The roval procurator maintains that seven Archbishopric and seventeen Bish-ourics in the former kingdom of Naples are under crown patronage oy virtue oi a concession ol Clement v 11 to cnaries v When the Congress Shall Assemble- Vienna, March 14. RuBBia has in timated a desire that the Congress meet the 30th of March, the twenty second anniversary of the Bignature of the treaty of Paris. The Austrian Government firmly anticipates the Congress will assemble that day. Fears of Special Arrangement lie tweeu Miisaln and 'farksy. Berlin, March 14. TheAnglo-Austrian demand that the whole of the Russo- Turkish agreement shall be submitted to Congress arises from a belief that special arrangements have been entered into independent of the principal treaty. The ServiansReleased Tnrks. Belgrade, March 14. A great part of the Servian army of limok has been disbanded. The reported proposal that 40,-000 Turks, to be released from captivity in Russia, shall be Bent to Bosnia, is causing great excitement here. Kusstan Loan .Snnserlntlnn. St. Petersburg, M.irch 14 Subscrip tions for the new isttie of fifty million roubles in treasury bonds wore opened here Wednesday. It is officially stated that the whole amount was immediately subscribed. Tonnage Ordlnnnce Promulgated Madrid, March 14. A royal ordinance has been. promulgated to the effect that the tonnage indicated in tire papers of vessels irom tbe United States shall be accepted as correct in Spain and Spanish colonies. ld and New Recrnlls Ordered to Constant luonle. London, Msrch 14. A dispatch from Constantinople says : The Provincial Governors have been ordered to send hore promptly both old and newly enlisted recruits. The Church In Poland. Rome, March 14. The Pope has charged three Drelates ta examine the af. fairs of the Church in Poland, and pro poses a solution of tbe pending questions. General Grant. Athens, Maroh 14 The King visited and took luncheon with General Grant at the American Legation to-day. The uenerai sailed Ibis evening for Naples. Death of an Author. London, March 14. James Hain Iriswell, the author, is dead. Nicholas Larce, of San Francisco, died luesiiuy. CRIME AND CASUALTY. More Cuiisednesa Anions; Students, New Yore, March 14 A special to the Evening Post from Princeton, New Jersey, says : It has always, of late years, been a custom for the Junior class to celebrate their passing of the final exami nation in logic, with a bonfire and n re works. The examination took place yesterday, but the class vetoed the celebra tion for fear of creating a disturbance- Last night five Juniors exploded fire crackers on the ground and on the build ing of the Theological Seminary. They were followed by two Seminary students, and being overtaken one was seized be fore he could be identified. I be Seminary student was assaulted, and his com rade coming to his assistance was knocked down several times. This was between nine and ten o clock. The students of the College went to the lower part of town and obtaining reinforcements to the number of eighteen, pUBbed toward the Seminary building. Here they, were met by four Seminary students, to one of whom they gave a severe beating, ending by breaking his nose. Warrants were immediately sworn out for tbe arrest of six of the assailants, and tbey were Berved at eleven o'clock last night, when bail was given for their appearance this morning to answer to three charges, two of assault and one of selling fire to the old Seminary. One of the onendera has already been dismissed, but ie ia probable that four will be bound over to await the decision of the grand jury in May. Railroad Accident. Cheyenne, Wy March 14 The west bound paesenger train was thrown from tbe track ix miles west of North Platte at 2:30 this morning, by a broken rail, the engine aud mail car passing over all right. Tbe baggage car, two coaches and the sleeper were badly wrecked, but fortunately no one hurt. There were three emigrant care attached to the rear of the train, winch were replaced ou the track end taken back to North Platte, with the pas sengers, who will remain there until the next regular train west to-night. Ihe Colorado Central train, so long snow-bound at Taylor and Lone Tree, ar rived here at ten this morning. Acqultlcd of n charge of Murder. Philadelphia, March 14 In the oaso of Charles Welsh, a boy twelve years old, charged with shooting and killing Robert MbAdam, a playmate of the same age, the jury rendered a verdict that the shooting was accidental, the foreman ex plaining that the jury thought the boy was not aware of the dangerous character of the weapon, and that there was no evidence of intent to commit murder. The boy was set at liberty. Kami Accident to a thild. Paterson, N. J March 14. Maggie Ad-ims, aged three, whose parents live in New York, but who has been stopping hore with her grandfather, Thomas Adams, while out with the latter to-day, ran before an approaching freight train at the Erie depot and had both legs torn off at the thighs, ihe grandiatber, in at tempting to rescue her, was severely wounded. Forgery by a SchooInVam. Memphis. March 14. Misa Mary Hampton, a prominent school teacher in the public schools of this city, was dis covered to-day as a forger, she having forged the names of superintendent .Leath and other prominent persons to noteB on which she got from banks and private parties thirtyfive hundred dollars. A DIlnlHIer Hanged. Nashville, Tenn , March 14. Rsv- erend Brown Coble, colored, was hanged at Winchester, at 6 p. m., for the murder of Felix Gardiner.colored, June 23, 1876. JN early JU.UUd people witnessed the exe cution, HiB neck was broken in the fall, and be died within seven minutes. Negro Lynched One Man Hilled and Five Wonnded. Pensacola. March 14. A negro, who grossly assaulted a child aged five years, causing its death, was last night lynched by a mob. Ihe sheriff s poBse resisted the' lynchers, killing one and wounding five dangerously. Outlet I'or Weslorn Produce. Halifax, March 14. The scheme of making Halifax a winter outlet for West ern produce is again reported on by Mr. black, wbo returned irom an interview with shippers at Chicago and intermedi ate points. He BayB that owing to one of Allan a steamers being disabled, the prac ticability of the scheme can not be tested this season. At Chicago the different railroads sign bills of lading by particu lar ships and guarantee the produce to reach the ships at New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia in time for their sailing time usually five days. Ibis dispatch can not possibly be approximated by Canadian routes, nor can freight from Chicago via the Grand Xrunk, be certain to meet any desired steamer at Portland. Dispatch IB of vital importance to West em shippers, and until this is established and commodious elevators bunt at Hali fax, it can not expect to divert traffic from the present routes. UufclnesM Embarrassment. Chicago, March 14 A number of the creditors of the Marsh Harvester compa ny, of Sycamore and Chicago, have tiled petition asking that it be adjudicated bankrupt. Ihe creditors represent il'JV,- 000 of indebtedness, and the claim is set up that the debtors made a fraudulent as signment of a large amount of property to Artnur iu. cttarK. ine company bas been greatly embarrassed by tbe recent failure of J. D. Eister & Co,, Chicago, with winch nrm it bad intimate relations A speedy adjustment is expccled, and the managers will probably resume business immediately. Kansas Immigration. Topeka, Ks , March 14 Immigra tion to Kansas still continues unabated, and the various land offices are overflow ing with homestead and pre-emption en tries. Iwetve thousand acres were taken at the land office in one day last week, and yesterday the Bales of the Atchison, lopeka and Santa be Kailroad company reached Slli.UUU, all to actual settlers. f our full passenger trains, consisting of thirty coaches and fifteen hundred people, passed over the road to Southwest Kansas yesterday. 'Ihe Snow lllockade Opeu. Omaha, Neb., March 14. The first overland passenger express train from the west since Friday last, arrived this after noon. All the snow bound passengers have reached this oity. The Union Pacific ia now running all trains on schedule time. Four hundred miles of the road is clear from the ellects of the worst storm in the history of the road, in sixty hours. Fire nt Helena, Arkansas. Memphis, Tenn,, March 14. An Avalanche special from Helena, Arkansas, re ports that a fire now raging has destroyed the machine snop ot the Central railroad Loss mostly in machinery. The fire is under control. Clear of Ice. Detroit, March 14 A telegram from Sault Ste Marie, this afternoon, reports the river free of ice, excepting in Mud L-nuo, wnere it is lour or bveincbes tnicE. but very porous, The Latest from Hot Springs. Memphis, Maroh 14 In a special from Dr. Lawrence, chairman of the Execu tive Relief committee of Hot Springs, in reply to general correspondence regarding accommodations to visitors, be states to the publio that tbe commercial portion of Hot Springs was mostly destroyed by tne late hre, but that all visitors can be comfortably cared for throughout the entire year. New Railroad Bridge completed, New Brunswick, N. J March 14. ine new wocden bridge across the Kin tan river was completed by the Pennsylvania rtanroau company last night, and the nrat tnrougb train since Saturday's lire crossed the river this morning. The new structure is nine hundred feet long, cost twenty thousand dollars and was put up by five hundred men in four days. Death of a confederate Commo. uore. Baltimore, March 14. Commodore Robert F. Pinkney died this morning in his 67th year. At the outbreak of the civil war,the deceased was a captain in the united eiates jNavy, which he resigne and entered the Confederate service. The Suclal Science Association. Cincinnati, March 14. Preparations are making for the meeting of tbe Ameri can Social Science Association, which convenes here May 18, and the Conference of Charities, whicn mests May 21. Both bodies will hold their sessions in the smaller rooms of the new Music Hall. Arrangemeut with creditors. Cincinnati, March 14. Howell. Gano & Co., hardware dealers, who recently sus pended, nave euected an arrangement with their creditors at Bixty cents on the dollar, tbe firm giving their unsecured notes Day- able in installments during two years without interest. Death of Oranvlllu Trcniiilu. Albany, March 14. Granville Tre- main, son of Lyman Tremaiu, and candi date for Attorney Uenerai on the repub lican ticket last fall, died to-day of typhoid fever. Mlver Selling Above Par. New York, March 14. The new eil- ver dollar appeared on Wall street this morning. Buyers paid a fraction above par in gold for the tokens. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The Virginia Senate yesterday passed the funding bill,: Fifty emigrants will leave Pennsylvania in a few days for Liberia. White's cotton warp mill, at Manches ter, Connecticut, burned yesterday. In surance $30,000. The Pennsylvania Senate lias adopted resolutions opposing any change of the present tariff laws. The five cent savings bank of Newbtiry- port, Massachusetts, has been enjoined from doing business. Jeliial Read & Co., hat and cap dealers, and Joseph H. Marks, commission mer chant, New York, have failed. Robert Hamilton, an ex-member of Congress, died at Newton, New Jersey, yesterday morning of paralysis. The reduction of the Chicago fire brig ade baB caused considerable of a commotion among the New York insurance companies. The Senate committee on Commerce have agreed to a favorable report on the nomination of Atonzo N. Beard, Collector of Customs, at Boston. J. & J. Ilegan & Co., dry goods and carpet firm, St. John, New Brunswick, have compromised with their creditors by paying 40 cents on the dollar. It is now thought that Captain Camp bell of the British brig Alice, of which an attempt was made to steal the cargo and sell it at Baltimore, has been murdered by the crew. An investigation is being bad. There was a negro marriage in Tallade ga, Ala., a few days ago, and soon after tbe ceremony a rejected suitor ol tne bride threw bis arms around her neck and inflicted upon her eight or nine stabs, from which she died almost instantly. He then mounted the Court House steps and proclaimed : "I done it; hang me or kill me, just as you please, only bury me by Lize s Bide. ' The foreign imporla of New York city during February were $25,726,714, and the produce exports $23,834,290. The exportation is the heaviest ever made from that port, whilst the importation is the smallest during February since 1871. For the eight months of the fiscal year that have passed the imports at New York have been $202,399,210 and the produce exports have been $221,475,634. The imports have been about one million over and the exports about twentyfive millions over the totals for tbe cor responding period last year. The Knoxsville (Tenn.) Chronicle, a Republican paper, andconseqently an advocate of the honest payment of the State debt,saye: "We do not know of a prominent Democrat in all this section (East Ten nessee) who is not opposed to repudiation. It is not so in other portions. In West Tennessee most of the prominent Democratic politicians are avowed repudiatlon-ists, In Middle Tennessee, those who as pire to Gubernatorial honors are afraid to open their moutbson this question. Ihe probability is that the repudiation element will be very strong in the Democaat-ic convention, and will likely predominate." Ohio. Morris Richey, an old resident of Ath ens, fell dead on tho 13th inst., from a stroke of paralysis. A. J. Ricks, of Maasillon, has been ap pointed clerk of the United States Dis trict court at Cleveland. A barn belonging to William McCam- mon, near Oxford, was burned on the 12th inst. Loss $2buU; insured for $1UUU. A three year old child of ex-Representa tive Duncan, of Morrow county, was drowned at Cardington, on the J.ttli, by falling into a cistern. Rebecca Hilsey. of Meiga county, charged with burning her husband's mill in May last, and to which she plead guilty, bas been adjudged insane, John Garner, of Chillicothe, wbo has just completed a term in the Penitentiary, ior lorgery, is unuer arrest cnargeu wuu burglary, ile is in a lair way to return to his old quarters. The case of McGill, at Cleveland, sentenced to be hanged June '2D, will be taken before the District Court next Monday, on a bill of exceptions. Irregularly forming the jury Is the chief claim for a new trial. Foreign. Bullion in the Bank of England increased 41,500 the past week, Specie in the Bank of France increased 5,200,000 irancs tne tfast weeK. A distillery at Belfast waB damaged by Hre night oetore last to tne extent of $o00, 000. Thirtysix persona attending a fair at Brest, Franco, were drowned yesterday by tne upsetting oi a uarge, In Russian military circles it is thought MARRIED. Dohalosok Botsr At the parsonage of Town Street M. B. Church, March 14, 1878, by Rev. Isaac F. King, Mr. Bwino Donalo-sm and Miss Maria Boyxn, both of Franklin county. DIED. Lbvy On Thursday, March 14, 1878; GioRdis Hinbii, daughter of John H. and Lucy E. Levy, aged eight years. Funeral service at residence, 238 North Front Btreet, at 10 a, m , Friday, March 16. Friends invited. Joycb On Thursday, March 14, FamaiCE, eldest child of Michael and Louisa Joyce. aged two years. Funeral from the family residence, 493 North High street, at 2!, o'clock n. m.. Sun day, March 17. 2t KArjrriXLD On Wednesday. March 13. at 2 a. m , John KiUFriiLii, aged tbirty-eeven years, four moatha and thirteen days. runerai irom tne residence ot Adam Heintz, oorner of Friend and Fourth streets, on Friday, March 15, at 2 p. m Frien ls and acquaintances are invited to attend. 2t probable that Prince Battenberg will be chosen Prince of Bulgaria. The Emperor of Ruaiia has Bigned a charter authorizing certain New York capitalists to erect and operate grain elevators in lhat country. A special from Corfu reports that the Turks have devastated eight Christian villages in tbe district of Delvino. and mas sacred the male inhabitants. They also killed one hundred fugitive women and children on the seashore. The English CoobuI has gone to investigate the outrages. THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. The Loftiest Peak lu Ihe Andos Range Slutlsllcs or - Temperature.According to recent geographical sur veys, it seems that the Aconcagua Peak is the loftiest of the Andes range, and the highest in America, It is one hundred miles east of Valparaiso and nearly in latitude 32 deg. 30 min. south. Its actual height ia not positively and accurately known, but the measurements made by M. PisBis and subsequent scientists mako it certain that the elevation is between 22,400 and 23 900 feet above the waters of the sea. The French explorer made it 22,422, or four miles and 1302 feet over, which would be 998 feet higher than the snowy summit of Chimborsz), as Hum-bold measured the latter, when in 1802 the great German made his famous ascent of that mountain with Bonpland to a height of 19,286 feet. Aconcagua, seen from the Chilian seaport of Valparaiso, is shown only as a peak, towering above the other heights of the Andes at a distance of 100 miles or more inland, toward the sunrise. From the aea it presents, at a much longer range, a grand Bpectacle; but it is only from the east from' the upper country of La Plata in the Argentine Confederation that the vaBt height of thia mountain monarch, towering to the skies, is seen to the fullest advantage. From the town or city of Mendoza, fifty miles east of the mountain, the view must be as grand as that of any mountain on earth; for, owing to forbidding conditions, the highest mountains on the globe (in tho Himalaya range of the East Indies and Thibet) are not seen to the best advantage from any acceseible point of view yet at tained. Aconcagua has been called an extinct volcano, but the best examina tions vet made of its summit do not ap pear to bear out that idea. The recent observations, referred to on Wednesday at the meeting of the Geographical Society, make the height of the Chilian mountain 23,200 feet, and "probably" over that figure. At 19,000 feet Humboldt found it hard to breathe and his strength failing him, Mr. E. G-. Squier, the explorer of the mountains of the old Peruvian Incas, experienced similar sensations at an elevation of 16,000 feet, and his native com panion dropped from his borte, bleeding at the nose, ears and eyea. From the sea Chiniborazo usually presents a finer spec tacle than Aconcagua. The elevation ot Mexico s higheat mountain Popocatepetl or "smoking mountain" is nearly 5000 feet less than that of tbe Chilian peak, and Mount Shasta and Mount Hood fall short to about the same figure. Pike's Peak is about 9000 feet lower than Acon cagua. Mysterious Movement of tho Brltsu Fleet. By Cable to tbe Cincinnati Commercial.! The British Admiral has changed the anchorage of that portion of the fleet in the sea of Marmora to the Gulf of Ismid. Orders have also been issued for the Bes-ika Bay squadron to move up to Gallipo-li to join Admiral Commerell, second in command, This will add four heavy iron clads to the fleet inside the Dardanelles, and it remains to be Been whether they will be allowed to piss the forts. There is already serious uneasiness in Russia, where England's warlike preparations are regarded as foreboding tho intention of depriving the Russians of the fruits of their hard earned victories, and these movements of the fleet are likely to add to the feeling of distrust. I have the best authority for the foregoing information, and it is hinted that the Channel fleet, now waiting orders at Malta, will soon go on to reinforce Admiral Hornby in the Bes of Marmora. Negotiations as to the meeting of the Congress seem to make little progress, and alarmist tendencies begin again to manifest themselves. Law Against Flirting Burke, in the"History of Virginia says : "I find that the Governor was obliged soon after to issue a proclamation forbidding women to contract to two several men at one time. For women being yet scarce, and much in request, this offense was becoming very common, whereby great disquiet arose between parties, and no smalt trouble to the government. It was, therefore, ordered that the minister should give notice in his church that what woman soever should use any word or speech tending to a contract of marriage, to several persons at one time, although not precise and legal, yet so aa might entangle or breed scruple in their consciences, should for Buch offense, either undergo corporeal correction, or be punished by fine, or otherwise, according to the quality of the person so offending." ' A singular case of somnambulism oc curred in Carlisle, Wyoming county, a few nights ago. Miss Mahala Rose, a maiden lady of quite advanced age, deliberately jumped from a second story window in her night-clothes and barefooted, .struck on her feet "right side up with ore," and never awoke. She walked about the yard, and finally stepped into Borne water, which was too cold for old Morpheus, and he let up. The lady, upon finding herself in such a plight, called for admission to the house. Tiuuv'i mnirt nnrripd him to his moth er for punishment, Master Jimmy having pinched lier in me ince ho wevereiy wihi n was black and blue. "Jimmy, you've been a very naughty boy, and you must, promise never to pinch Pegsy again." "I promise," eaid Jimmy, with a roguish smile. "Promise what," asked his mother. "Never to pinch Peggy again where it will show," replied the future membor of Congrecs,

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COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBl.t81ir.IIS AMI rnOPHIETIIHS. A. W. FIIANOIMO, . . General Manager LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. . Congress. March 14 Senate Bill passed: Granting a pension to the widow ot Keur AdmtrHi Wilkes Bills introduced: Paying customs duties and other debtB duo the United States in legal tender notes; regulating passenger fare and freight traffic on the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways; constructing a narrow-gauge road from Bismarck to the Black Hills Adjourned till Monday. House Bills passed : Limiting tho number of special attorneys to assist District Attorneys to one; extending to three years the time ior withdrawing distilled liquors from bond A bill making contingent appropriations for the House was reported and passed The Massachusetts contested election case was called up, but no definite action waa taken. General Assembly. March 14. Senate Bills passed: Au-tlmrizinir Wavdr county to build a court house; reorganizing the infirmary board of Hnmilton county; authorizing mo Attorney General and Auditor of State to settle claims due the Stale; changing the name of a Zanes-ville church; amending the Ohildren'B Home act in reference to the manner of taking the vote in establishing such homes; authorizing Green Springs to erect a town hall and engine house; allowing Mahoning county to transfer funds; enabling the Commissioners of Hamilton county to make a fill; limiting the comnensition of township trustees and clerks; extending mechanics' lien to two years. Mouse Bills passed: Assessing a tax on dogs and providing for its collection; au-. . tuoriziog Leesburg to issue bonds; authorizing the city of Hamilton to expend one-half its bridge fund; reconstructing the Cincinnati board of aldermen; dividing election nrecincts: amending the ditch law in Sandusky, Summit and Wood counties; incorporating literary associations; amending the challenge clause ' ol the jury law; authorizing jnarsnauviiie, Wayne county, to purchase a tire engine, construct cisterns and build an engine house Bill introduced: Providing bow the Xema tax of 1877 Bhall be distributed. Vmiicad'ons for Tennessee and tlie Ohio Valley and Lower Lake Eegion Rising barometer! colder north to west winds and partly cloudy weather, except preceded by rain areas or snow in the cast district, gradually followed from westward by falling barometer and winds shifting to warmer, southeast or southwest. Gold closed in New York yesterday at 101. Go to the primaries. Councilman Hull stands for renomi nation in the First ward. Charles G. Debhleb is suggested by his friends for Council in the First ward. Dh. Flowers and W. 8. Ide will give epirit to the contest for Council in the Third ward this evening. George Donaldson, Assistant Secre- tary of the Republican State Executive committee, 1b a cindidate for the nomination for Council in the Second ward. It 1b thought there will be noma electricity in the primaries in this, as well as in several other wards. A report has been circulated about the city to the effect that General Samuel Thomas, if elected to the City Council from the Second ward, will not give the office proper attention. Tho roputation of Gen. Thomaa and the fact that he has consented to be a candidate, are sufficient guarantees that he will attend to his du ties as Councilman with ability, faithfulness and honesty. The .Republican votera of Columbua are officially notified, elsewhere in this paper, to meet in their respective wards this evening at 7j o'clock and nominate candidates for ward officers, and Bolect delegates to a City Convention to be held in the City Hall to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. A general attendance of votera will be in the interest of the good government of the city. The primary meetings may be said to be- at the bottom of our municipal management. There is where the people get in their voice first, and they should be emphatic. Turn out strong, nominate candidates who will command by their worth and ability the popular enthusiasm, and then put them through on their merits at the April elec tion. There ia some excellent timber up in the various wards. Make the nominations with a vim and popular support that will encourage tho nominees to "go it" on the home stretch. The 1819 reunion mil. As a matter of particular interest to a large number of persons in all sections of the country we subjoin the text of the act amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812 and their widows, and for other purposes : Be it enacted, etc . lhat the secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men, without regard to color, including militia and volunteers, of the military and naval service of the United States, who served for fourteen days in the war with Great Britain of 1812, or who were in any engagement, and were honorably discharged, and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted and drafted men. Sec. 2. That this act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate ol eight dollars per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pen sion of less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference of the pension now received (if leBS than eight dollars per month) and eight dollars per month. Pensions under tins act Bball be at the rate of eight dollars per mouth, except as herein provided, and Bhall be paid to the person entitled thereto, from and after the passage of this act, for and during their natural lives : Provided, That the pensions to widows provided for in this act shall cease when tbey shall marry again. Sec. 3. That before the name ol any person shall be placed upon the pension rolls under this act proofs shall be made, under Buch rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall prescribe, that the applicant is en titled to a pension under this act; and any nerson who shall falsely take any oath re quired to be taken under the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of per jury; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken irom ine roiiB the name of any person when it shall appear by proof satisfactory to him that Buch name was put on said rolls by or through false or fraudulent representations or by mistake as to the right of such person to a pension under this act. The loss or lack of a certificate of discharge shall not deprive the applicant of the benefit of this act, but oilier prool ot the service performed and of an honorable discharge, if satisfactory, shall be deemed sufficient; and when there is no recorded evidence el such service and such discharge the applicant may establish the Bsme by other satisfactory testimony: JYoiiidcd, That when any person has been granted a land warrant under any act of CongreBB for and on account of service in the said war of 1812. such grant shall be ptimo facie evi dence of his service and honorable discharge, so as to entitle him, if living, or his widow, if liebedead.to a pension un der this act ; but such evidence shall not be conclusive, and may be rebutted by evidence that such land warrant was improperly granted. Seo. 4, Tbat all applications for pensions of the classes provided for in this act heretofore or which may hereafter be made shall be considered and decided as though made under this act; and all laws now in force in regard to the manner of paying pensions, and in reference to the punisnmenioi irauus, suan ue Hppiicauic to all claims under the provisions of this act. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to restore to the pension rolls the names of all persons now surviving here tofore pensioned on account ot service in the war of 1812 Ofiiiiust Great Britain, or for service in any of the Indian wars, and whose names were stricken from the rolls in pursuance of the act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to strike from the pension rolls the names of such persons as have taken up arms against the Government, or who have in any manner encouraged the rebels," approved February 4, 1802; and that the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution prohibiting payment by any officer of the Government to any perBon not known to have been opposed to the rebellion and in favor of its suppression," approved March 2, 1867, and section 4716 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the'peraons provided for by this act : Provided, That no money shall be paid to any one on account of pensions for the time during whioh his name remained stricken from the roll. Sec 6. That the surviving widow of any pensioner of the war of 1812, where the name of said pensioner was stricken from the pension-rolls in pursuance of the act entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to strike from the penBion-rolU the names of such persons as have taken up arms against the Government, or who have in any manner encouraged the rebels," approved February 4, 180 J, and where, under the existing law, said pensioner died without his name being restored to the rolls, shall be en titled to make claim for a pension as such widow after the paBsageoI thiaact: Pro vided, That no such arrearage shall be paid for any period prior to the time of the removal of the disability of the pensioner: And provided farther, That under this act any widow of a revolutionary soldier who served fourteen days or was in any engagement shall be placed upon the pension-rolls of the United States, to receive a penBion at the rale of $8 per month. Sec. 7. That all laws and claimes of laws in conflict with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved March , 1878. The number of vessels belonging to or bound to or Irom American ports which were lost during February waa 48, the value of the lost vessels, exclusive of their cargoes, being estimated at $835,000. There were wrecked 2 steamerB (one of them the Metropolis), 1 ship, 14 barks, 3 brigs ana ia schooners. BY TELEGRAPH TO THK OHIO STATS JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Proposition to Fay Customs Du ties iu Legal Tender Notes. The Bill to Extend tba Bond Period of Whisky to Thres Tears Passed by the House of Repre' sentatives. Tho Sale of Public Lands to lie Set Aside fur Educational I'niposes A Texas Paolflo Railroad Bill Agreed Upon. Further Revenue Troubles Reported in the South. Till her depredations. Washington, March 14. A report received from Pensacola states that within a radius of seventyfive miles of that place, the public lands have been denuded of more nuioer man in tuo Bme raaius in any other locality in the United States. It is estimated that about sevenlenths of the timber shipped from Peusacola is taken from the public domain, and that $200,000 could be recovered for the Government if the oases were properly prosecuted, educational, The committee on Education and Labor to-day instructed Mr. Goode, Chairman, to report a bill providing that the net proceeds of tho sales of the public lands shall be forever consecrated mid set apart for the education of tho people. The act ia not to have any effect to repeal, impair or suspend any law authorizing the preemption of public lands, or of entry of public lands for homesteads, nor of limiting in any manner the power of Congress to alter or extend the right of homestead upon such lands; nor shall it be held to limit or abridge the power of Congress over the public domain, or interfere with the granting of bounty binds. The Secretary of the Treasury is required, on or before the Slat day of July, each year, to apportion to the several States and territories, and to the District of Columbia, upon a basis of the population of said States and territories, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, the net proceeds of the Bales of publio lands for the previous year; provided that after five years, half of said net proceed?, and after ten years the whole of the Bame, shall be .Bet apart as an educational fund, which said funds shall he invested in bonds of the United States, bearing a rate of interest not leRs than four per centum per annum, both principal and interest payable in coin, the interest on such educational fund only to be appropriated as above provided; and that for the first ten years the distribution of the net proceeds and interest ou the fund to and among the several States, Territories and the District of Columbia shall be made according to the number of their respective population of ten years old and upward, who cannot read and write, aB shown from time to time by the last preceding published census of the United States, the first apportionment to be made on or before July, 1878, when the States and Territories shall be entitled to receive their distributive shareB. Mr. Goode will offer an amendment providing that onefuurth of the moneys appropriated by this bill shall be given to the agricultural colleges and institutions of learning established in accordance with the act ol Congress of July 2, 1862, unless in any case the State Legislature shall otherwise direct. NAVAL APPROPRIATION. The Navy Appropriation bill, recently introduced in the House by Representative Clymer, appropriates the total sum of $14,048,684. Throughout the bill the specific objects of the appropriation are stated. Only one million five hundred thousand dollars are appropriated for the preservation of vessels on stocks or in ordinary, purchase of materials and Btores of all kinds, labor in navy yards and on foreign stations, presevation of materials, purchase of tools, wear, tear and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the navy on a line of construction and repair, incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage. REVENUE TROUBLES. Collector Bravton, at Greenfield, South Carolina, telegraphB the Commissioner of Internal Kevenue, be bas organized a force of thirty men who are now on their way to Pickens county. Redmond with thirty men followed Captain Hoffman's force of eight men all day Tuesday. They being powerless to contend with Redmond's gang retreated to Easley, waiting reinforcements. Redmond has ordered the citizens at their peril not to furnish food or Bhelter for the revenue officers. Warrants will be procured for the jail breakers and other revenue culprits. They will either be captured or become fugitives. THE TEXAS PACIFIC. The Senate sub committee in charge of various bills concerning trans-continental communication, on or near the thirty-second parallel, reported favorably on the Texas-Pacifio project, and submitted to the full committee a copy ot tbe bill agreed upon by the House Pacific Railroad committee. The full committee he-can diacusBion of the measure and ad journed until Tuesday next, when final action is expected, ine Buo-committeeiB composed of Senators Matthews, Sanders, Dorsey, Barnum and Ransom. THE FOUR PER CENT, LOAN. The Secretary of the Treasury Bays the report he has decided to sell a large amount of four and a half per cent, bonds at par in gold is erroneous. He had made no such decision. The total aubacription to the four per cent, bonds since the date of the Treasury circular, January 10, advertising the loan, is three and a half millions. ine Bunscnpiion for tho present month, to date, aggregated half a million. To-day's subscription did not go above $16,000. UNION PACIFIC DIRECTORY. The terms of office of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific railroad expired last Sundav. The President and Secretary Schurz had a conference to-day on the subject of new appointments to fill tbe Hoard, lheir names will be sun- mitten to the Cabinet to-morrow. It 1b probable tbat Chadwick only will be re appointed. James F. Wilson is not a candidate for reappointment. G. B Smyth, af Iowa, will be his successor. THE TARIFF. Tho committee on Ways and Means made a number more changes in the Tariff bill to-day. Among them salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages, 12 cents per 100 pounds; in bulk, 8 cents per 100 pounds. New type and type metal, 20 per cent, ad valorem. NEW DOLLARS RECEIVED. Ten thousand new silver dollars were received at the Treasury to-day, and about three thousand dollars have beet paid out in exchange for gold. NOMINATIONS. The President has nominated the following United States Consuls: Thomas M. Dowson, of California, at Opita; W. T. Rosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Auck land. XLVlh congress First Session. 8INATB. A number of pension billa were passod during the morning hour, among them one granting $50 a month to tbe widow of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes. Mr. Toorhees introduced a bill providing for the payment of all customs duties, and all other debts duo the United States, in legal lender notes at par, excerit in cases where it is otherwise expressly stipulated on the face of the obligation or contract. Referred.Mr. Teller introduced a bill to regulate passenger fare and freight traffic on tbe Denver Pacific railway nud Kansas Pacific railway. Referred. Consideration was then resumed of unfinished business, being the bill in regard to the Pacific railroad sinking fund, and Mr. Matthews spoke in favor of the bill reported bv the committee on Railroads, and gave no tice that he would hereafter submit it as substitute for that reported by the Judiciary committee. Mr. Gordon, by request, introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from Bismarck to the Black mils. neterreu. The Consular and Diplomatic Annronria tion bill was then received from the Honse of Representatives, and referred to the com mittee on Appropriations. The Vice President announced his signa ture to the House bill for the relief of Wil liam A. Hammond, late Surgeon General of the Army, and it now goea to the President lor bia signature. Mr. Christiancy took the floor to speak on Monday on the Sinking Fund bill, and tho senate adjourned till lual uuy. IIOUSI. During the morning hour was discussed a bill reported from the committee on Kxpen- ditures in ine Department ol justice, limiting the number of special attorneys appointed to assist District Attorneys to one, aud limiting tbe fee to two thousand dollars. The bill finally passed and the House went iuto committee of the Whole on the bill extending to three years time for withdrawing distilled liquors from bond Air. bavler stated ine purposo ot ine reso lution, that its principal object was to extend tbe bond period of whisky to three yeats instead of one year as now provided by law. In other words, it was to give to alcoholic spirits manufactured in this country the same privileges that are given to liquors imported from Europe and put in bonded warehouses. Mr. Conger sud this resolution was an old acquaintance. Its face was familiar to hiin ami the House. It had been thero before. Its principal claim at tbat time whs that the expectation of a change in the tx on distilled spirits wholly discouraged business and threatened with loss and bankruptcy those engaged in business. That claim had been promptly met by the adoption of a res olution that it was me solemn judgment ot the Housb tbat it was inexpedient to change the tax on whisky. Now under the apparently stimulating power of four years' old whisky, tbe House was asked to extend the time for paying ths tax, not three months, as before proposed, but years. He could not account for tho boldness of the movement. Was it true, as they were informed on the other aide of the House, tbat the Treasury needed all the revenue it could get. and that the expenditures must be cut down in all departments of the Government? If that were bo, how could the Government aflbrd to postpone for three years the tax on distilled spitits? Ho would leave it to tbe gentlemen whose districts wero threatened with bankruptcy bv the tariff bill being ooncocted in secret in a corner of the Capitol by a committee which forbade approach, and kept out all infor mation. The manufacturers of whisky seemed to think there was a marvelous tendency to favor whisky iu the House. Laughter. There seemed to be an opinion lhat it was safe to appeal to Congress to favor the whisky intorest and to destroy all other intereatB. Mr. Buuer smd be understood tho bill thoroughly, and waB quite ready to agroa to its general object aa a matter of relief, and tbat waa to lend at five per cent, for two years an amount of money equal to the tax on whisky. The Government could borrow money at tour per cent., and this would bo a gain of one per cent. That was all there was in it, but he was opposed to anything that looked like favoring speculation. If the promoters of the measure did not mean that, they would agree to an amendment which he proposed to offer to the third section. That amendment waa providing that the tax or duty paid on all distilled spirits when tie same are witbdrawn. snail be the amount of duty or tax which would have been paid if paid when such distilled spirits were put in bond. Mr. Sayler stated that that was provided in the resolution. He had no objection to it. except that it was mere surpluses. Mr. Butler well, it you admit lhat amendment, I withdraw all objections to the lesolution. Mr. Lapham regarded the measure as a proposition to lend to the distillers for two years, at oper cent.,tne vast revenues which they pay to the Treasury, und that at a peri od when the revenues were diminishing, when the Houso was told that it will be difficult to balance tbe book at the end of the year, when gentlemen on the other side were crving Hconomy. economy, relorm. reform." Such a-proposition could not have bis annroval. Mr. Fort feared tho object of the bill was to give time for tbe whisky men to obtain a reduction ot tne tax. Mr. Harrison opposed tbe bill not only as being class legislation, but as Deing in tavor of a certain class ot whiBky and not the whole interest. It was for the benefit of that whisky which waa improved by age; the kind of whisky which brought an . im mense revenue into the Treasury, and it would not receive the slightest beuetit from it. Mr. Burchard supported the bill. It did not endanger the revenue of tho country. It was not so much in the interest of the dis tiller as in the interest of the revenue. Mr. Fort supported the bill. He denied that it would reduce tho revenue, because the revenue came not froal the amount put into bond, but from the consumption. It might cause a temporary reduction, but in the end all the tax would be received. The general debate having closed, the bill was read Dy sections tor amendment. Mr. Butler offered the amendment suggested by him and it was agreed to. Mr. Conger moved to make the interest 7 per cent, inatead of 5. Rejected. Mr, Conger then moved to make tho interest 6 per cent. Reiected 71 to 51. The committee then rose and reported tbe bill and tbe amendments, which were agreed to and the bill passed yeas 118, nays 116. Mr. Sayler then moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed and moved to lay that motion on the table, on which Mr. Conger, owing to the closeness of the vote, called tor tne yeas and navs. which were ordered and resulted yeoa 122, nays hid; so me motion to reconsider was laid on tne table. Mr. Foster, from the committee on An propriations, reported a bill appropriating -r-.TO.uuu ior a contingent mna ot me House. rasseo. Mr. Springer called nn the renort of the committee on ElectionB on the Massachusetts contested election case, report of the majority being that Dean, the contestant, is entitled to the seat, and tbat of the minority being in favor of Field, the sitting member. After the opening speech by Mr. Springer, the House adjourned. FOREIGN. The Attitude of England and the Proposed Congress. Turkish Recruits to ba Sent at Ones to Constantinople. A. Portion of (lie Servian Army Disbanded. Conflict Between the Vatican and Government Feared. General Grant Lunches with tho King of Italy. Ine Enster Heceas of Parliament aud I lie congress. London, March 14. In the House of Commons this alternoon, Bir minora Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that if the military bill and certain estimates are papsed, the House will rise the 16th or 18th of April, till the Olh of May for the bastcr recess. Ihe Chancellor also stated he will introduce tbe budget the 4th of April. In reply to a question, the Chancellor said the Government has agreed to take part in the Congress. The Uovernment is now communicating with the various powers regarding the terms on which we enter the Congress. The Chancellor also said he could not enter into details, but he might say that in the Congress each power would maintain liberty of action. It was intended the majority should bind the minority. England will maintain her views in Congress and will require before entering it that every article of the treaty of peace shall be placed before the Congress in such a manner that theC-u-graB can judge whether the articles are to be accepted or not. Ilio Altitude ol Knelond and Hie l'ouErei,s. 6t. Petersburg. March 14. The Agence RuBse, commenting on the Berlin dispatch, intimating that sscret arrangements have been made between Russia and Turkey, says: Russia is not so confiding as to conclude secret clauses with Turkey, when she knows that the slightest transactions are communicated to Minister Layard. In regard to England's claim of right to examine the whole treaty at Ihe Con gress aud withdraw from meeting on certain contingencies, the Agence points out that every power will enter the Congress with full liberty as to the attitude it may assume relative to the claims brought for ward and the decisions arrived at. ilosuion to Lord Lyons Ileprc- souiIuk Eniclnnd nt file Congress. IjOndon. March 14. In the House of Commons last night. Sir Robert Peel ob jected to Lord Lyons representing En gland in the Congress, because ins opinions were opposed to those of Layard and Sir Henry Elliott. Sir Stafford North-e jte replied that the Government and not Lord Lyons was responsible tor England's course at the Congress. fjllildstone's Cnddldncy. London, March 15. Gladstone, reply ing to renewed invitations to stand for Leeds, points out that he may remain a representative of Greenwich two years longer. He declares he has positively de cided to lake no measure at present to become a candidate of any new constituency. It is thought that Gladstone will undoubtedly be returned from the flint boroughs unopposed. Edk1Ii.1i I.cciHlnllon. London. March 14 In the House of Lords to-night, the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction bill passed tho third reading. In the House ot commons, J3ourite, Under Foreign Secretary, replied to the inquiry, that the Government still thought that in view of the cauBe of breaking off of diplomatic relations with Mexico, the initiative lor their renewal couiu not come from England. Tbe Anstrlun Vote of Credit. Vienna. March 14 The Budget com mittee of the Austrian delegation to day commenced the discussion of the sixty million vote of credit. Count Andrassy stated that sixty million was the maximum amount that would be required. The committee rejected the demand of the War Minister for oo,uud norms ior mil itary stores. L'nnlllct With Ihe Vallcan Feared. Rome. March 14. The Government's action touching the Bishopric of Salerno must lead to a conflict with the Vatican. The roval procurator maintains that seven Archbishopric and seventeen Bish-ourics in the former kingdom of Naples are under crown patronage oy virtue oi a concession ol Clement v 11 to cnaries v When the Congress Shall Assemble- Vienna, March 14. RuBBia has in timated a desire that the Congress meet the 30th of March, the twenty second anniversary of the Bignature of the treaty of Paris. The Austrian Government firmly anticipates the Congress will assemble that day. Fears of Special Arrangement lie tweeu Miisaln and 'farksy. Berlin, March 14. TheAnglo-Austrian demand that the whole of the Russo- Turkish agreement shall be submitted to Congress arises from a belief that special arrangements have been entered into independent of the principal treaty. The ServiansReleased Tnrks. Belgrade, March 14. A great part of the Servian army of limok has been disbanded. The reported proposal that 40,-000 Turks, to be released from captivity in Russia, shall be Bent to Bosnia, is causing great excitement here. Kusstan Loan .Snnserlntlnn. St. Petersburg, M.irch 14 Subscrip tions for the new isttie of fifty million roubles in treasury bonds wore opened here Wednesday. It is officially stated that the whole amount was immediately subscribed. Tonnage Ordlnnnce Promulgated Madrid, March 14. A royal ordinance has been. promulgated to the effect that the tonnage indicated in tire papers of vessels irom tbe United States shall be accepted as correct in Spain and Spanish colonies. ld and New Recrnlls Ordered to Constant luonle. London, Msrch 14. A dispatch from Constantinople says : The Provincial Governors have been ordered to send hore promptly both old and newly enlisted recruits. The Church In Poland. Rome, March 14. The Pope has charged three Drelates ta examine the af. fairs of the Church in Poland, and pro poses a solution of tbe pending questions. General Grant. Athens, Maroh 14 The King visited and took luncheon with General Grant at the American Legation to-day. The uenerai sailed Ibis evening for Naples. Death of an Author. London, March 14. James Hain Iriswell, the author, is dead. Nicholas Larce, of San Francisco, died luesiiuy. CRIME AND CASUALTY. More Cuiisednesa Anions; Students, New Yore, March 14 A special to the Evening Post from Princeton, New Jersey, says : It has always, of late years, been a custom for the Junior class to celebrate their passing of the final exami nation in logic, with a bonfire and n re works. The examination took place yesterday, but the class vetoed the celebra tion for fear of creating a disturbance- Last night five Juniors exploded fire crackers on the ground and on the build ing of the Theological Seminary. They were followed by two Seminary students, and being overtaken one was seized be fore he could be identified. I be Seminary student was assaulted, and his com rade coming to his assistance was knocked down several times. This was between nine and ten o clock. The students of the College went to the lower part of town and obtaining reinforcements to the number of eighteen, pUBbed toward the Seminary building. Here they, were met by four Seminary students, to one of whom they gave a severe beating, ending by breaking his nose. Warrants were immediately sworn out for tbe arrest of six of the assailants, and tbey were Berved at eleven o'clock last night, when bail was given for their appearance this morning to answer to three charges, two of assault and one of selling fire to the old Seminary. One of the onendera has already been dismissed, but ie ia probable that four will be bound over to await the decision of the grand jury in May. Railroad Accident. Cheyenne, Wy March 14 The west bound paesenger train was thrown from tbe track ix miles west of North Platte at 2:30 this morning, by a broken rail, the engine aud mail car passing over all right. Tbe baggage car, two coaches and the sleeper were badly wrecked, but fortunately no one hurt. There were three emigrant care attached to the rear of the train, winch were replaced ou the track end taken back to North Platte, with the pas sengers, who will remain there until the next regular train west to-night. Ihe Colorado Central train, so long snow-bound at Taylor and Lone Tree, ar rived here at ten this morning. Acqultlcd of n charge of Murder. Philadelphia, March 14 In the oaso of Charles Welsh, a boy twelve years old, charged with shooting and killing Robert MbAdam, a playmate of the same age, the jury rendered a verdict that the shooting was accidental, the foreman ex plaining that the jury thought the boy was not aware of the dangerous character of the weapon, and that there was no evidence of intent to commit murder. The boy was set at liberty. Kami Accident to a thild. Paterson, N. J March 14. Maggie Ad-ims, aged three, whose parents live in New York, but who has been stopping hore with her grandfather, Thomas Adams, while out with the latter to-day, ran before an approaching freight train at the Erie depot and had both legs torn off at the thighs, ihe grandiatber, in at tempting to rescue her, was severely wounded. Forgery by a SchooInVam. Memphis. March 14. Misa Mary Hampton, a prominent school teacher in the public schools of this city, was dis covered to-day as a forger, she having forged the names of superintendent .Leath and other prominent persons to noteB on which she got from banks and private parties thirtyfive hundred dollars. A DIlnlHIer Hanged. Nashville, Tenn , March 14. Rsv- erend Brown Coble, colored, was hanged at Winchester, at 6 p. m., for the murder of Felix Gardiner.colored, June 23, 1876. JN early JU.UUd people witnessed the exe cution, HiB neck was broken in the fall, and be died within seven minutes. Negro Lynched One Man Hilled and Five Wonnded. Pensacola. March 14. A negro, who grossly assaulted a child aged five years, causing its death, was last night lynched by a mob. Ihe sheriff s poBse resisted the' lynchers, killing one and wounding five dangerously. Outlet I'or Weslorn Produce. Halifax, March 14. The scheme of making Halifax a winter outlet for West ern produce is again reported on by Mr. black, wbo returned irom an interview with shippers at Chicago and intermedi ate points. He BayB that owing to one of Allan a steamers being disabled, the prac ticability of the scheme can not be tested this season. At Chicago the different railroads sign bills of lading by particu lar ships and guarantee the produce to reach the ships at New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia in time for their sailing time usually five days. Ibis dispatch can not possibly be approximated by Canadian routes, nor can freight from Chicago via the Grand Xrunk, be certain to meet any desired steamer at Portland. Dispatch IB of vital importance to West em shippers, and until this is established and commodious elevators bunt at Hali fax, it can not expect to divert traffic from the present routes. UufclnesM Embarrassment. Chicago, March 14 A number of the creditors of the Marsh Harvester compa ny, of Sycamore and Chicago, have tiled petition asking that it be adjudicated bankrupt. Ihe creditors represent il'JV,- 000 of indebtedness, and the claim is set up that the debtors made a fraudulent as signment of a large amount of property to Artnur iu. cttarK. ine company bas been greatly embarrassed by tbe recent failure of J. D. Eister & Co,, Chicago, with winch nrm it bad intimate relations A speedy adjustment is expccled, and the managers will probably resume business immediately. Kansas Immigration. Topeka, Ks , March 14 Immigra tion to Kansas still continues unabated, and the various land offices are overflow ing with homestead and pre-emption en tries. Iwetve thousand acres were taken at the land office in one day last week, and yesterday the Bales of the Atchison, lopeka and Santa be Kailroad company reached Slli.UUU, all to actual settlers. f our full passenger trains, consisting of thirty coaches and fifteen hundred people, passed over the road to Southwest Kansas yesterday. 'Ihe Snow lllockade Opeu. Omaha, Neb., March 14. The first overland passenger express train from the west since Friday last, arrived this after noon. All the snow bound passengers have reached this oity. The Union Pacific ia now running all trains on schedule time. Four hundred miles of the road is clear from the ellects of the worst storm in the history of the road, in sixty hours. Fire nt Helena, Arkansas. Memphis, Tenn,, March 14. An Avalanche special from Helena, Arkansas, re ports that a fire now raging has destroyed the machine snop ot the Central railroad Loss mostly in machinery. The fire is under control. Clear of Ice. Detroit, March 14 A telegram from Sault Ste Marie, this afternoon, reports the river free of ice, excepting in Mud L-nuo, wnere it is lour or bveincbes tnicE. but very porous, The Latest from Hot Springs. Memphis, Maroh 14 In a special from Dr. Lawrence, chairman of the Execu tive Relief committee of Hot Springs, in reply to general correspondence regarding accommodations to visitors, be states to the publio that tbe commercial portion of Hot Springs was mostly destroyed by tne late hre, but that all visitors can be comfortably cared for throughout the entire year. New Railroad Bridge completed, New Brunswick, N. J March 14. ine new wocden bridge across the Kin tan river was completed by the Pennsylvania rtanroau company last night, and the nrat tnrougb train since Saturday's lire crossed the river this morning. The new structure is nine hundred feet long, cost twenty thousand dollars and was put up by five hundred men in four days. Death of a confederate Commo. uore. Baltimore, March 14. Commodore Robert F. Pinkney died this morning in his 67th year. At the outbreak of the civil war,the deceased was a captain in the united eiates jNavy, which he resigne and entered the Confederate service. The Suclal Science Association. Cincinnati, March 14. Preparations are making for the meeting of tbe Ameri can Social Science Association, which convenes here May 18, and the Conference of Charities, whicn mests May 21. Both bodies will hold their sessions in the smaller rooms of the new Music Hall. Arrangemeut with creditors. Cincinnati, March 14. Howell. Gano & Co., hardware dealers, who recently sus pended, nave euected an arrangement with their creditors at Bixty cents on the dollar, tbe firm giving their unsecured notes Day- able in installments during two years without interest. Death of Oranvlllu Trcniiilu. Albany, March 14. Granville Tre- main, son of Lyman Tremaiu, and candi date for Attorney Uenerai on the repub lican ticket last fall, died to-day of typhoid fever. Mlver Selling Above Par. New York, March 14. The new eil- ver dollar appeared on Wall street this morning. Buyers paid a fraction above par in gold for the tokens. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The Virginia Senate yesterday passed the funding bill,: Fifty emigrants will leave Pennsylvania in a few days for Liberia. White's cotton warp mill, at Manches ter, Connecticut, burned yesterday. In surance $30,000. The Pennsylvania Senate lias adopted resolutions opposing any change of the present tariff laws. The five cent savings bank of Newbtiry- port, Massachusetts, has been enjoined from doing business. Jeliial Read & Co., hat and cap dealers, and Joseph H. Marks, commission mer chant, New York, have failed. Robert Hamilton, an ex-member of Congress, died at Newton, New Jersey, yesterday morning of paralysis. The reduction of the Chicago fire brig ade baB caused considerable of a commotion among the New York insurance companies. The Senate committee on Commerce have agreed to a favorable report on the nomination of Atonzo N. Beard, Collector of Customs, at Boston. J. & J. Ilegan & Co., dry goods and carpet firm, St. John, New Brunswick, have compromised with their creditors by paying 40 cents on the dollar. It is now thought that Captain Camp bell of the British brig Alice, of which an attempt was made to steal the cargo and sell it at Baltimore, has been murdered by the crew. An investigation is being bad. There was a negro marriage in Tallade ga, Ala., a few days ago, and soon after tbe ceremony a rejected suitor ol tne bride threw bis arms around her neck and inflicted upon her eight or nine stabs, from which she died almost instantly. He then mounted the Court House steps and proclaimed : "I done it; hang me or kill me, just as you please, only bury me by Lize s Bide. ' The foreign imporla of New York city during February were $25,726,714, and the produce exports $23,834,290. The exportation is the heaviest ever made from that port, whilst the importation is the smallest during February since 1871. For the eight months of the fiscal year that have passed the imports at New York have been $202,399,210 and the produce exports have been $221,475,634. The imports have been about one million over and the exports about twentyfive millions over the totals for tbe cor responding period last year. The Knoxsville (Tenn.) Chronicle, a Republican paper, andconseqently an advocate of the honest payment of the State debt,saye: "We do not know of a prominent Democrat in all this section (East Ten nessee) who is not opposed to repudiation. It is not so in other portions. In West Tennessee most of the prominent Democratic politicians are avowed repudiatlon-ists, In Middle Tennessee, those who as pire to Gubernatorial honors are afraid to open their moutbson this question. Ihe probability is that the repudiation element will be very strong in the Democaat-ic convention, and will likely predominate." Ohio. Morris Richey, an old resident of Ath ens, fell dead on tho 13th inst., from a stroke of paralysis. A. J. Ricks, of Maasillon, has been ap pointed clerk of the United States Dis trict court at Cleveland. A barn belonging to William McCam- mon, near Oxford, was burned on the 12th inst. Loss $2buU; insured for $1UUU. A three year old child of ex-Representa tive Duncan, of Morrow county, was drowned at Cardington, on the J.ttli, by falling into a cistern. Rebecca Hilsey. of Meiga county, charged with burning her husband's mill in May last, and to which she plead guilty, bas been adjudged insane, John Garner, of Chillicothe, wbo has just completed a term in the Penitentiary, ior lorgery, is unuer arrest cnargeu wuu burglary, ile is in a lair way to return to his old quarters. The case of McGill, at Cleveland, sentenced to be hanged June '2D, will be taken before the District Court next Monday, on a bill of exceptions. Irregularly forming the jury Is the chief claim for a new trial. Foreign. Bullion in the Bank of England increased 41,500 the past week, Specie in the Bank of France increased 5,200,000 irancs tne tfast weeK. A distillery at Belfast waB damaged by Hre night oetore last to tne extent of $o00, 000. Thirtysix persona attending a fair at Brest, Franco, were drowned yesterday by tne upsetting oi a uarge, In Russian military circles it is thought MARRIED. Dohalosok Botsr At the parsonage of Town Street M. B. Church, March 14, 1878, by Rev. Isaac F. King, Mr. Bwino Donalo-sm and Miss Maria Boyxn, both of Franklin county. DIED. Lbvy On Thursday, March 14, 1878; GioRdis Hinbii, daughter of John H. and Lucy E. Levy, aged eight years. Funeral service at residence, 238 North Front Btreet, at 10 a, m , Friday, March 16. Friends invited. Joycb On Thursday, March 14, FamaiCE, eldest child of Michael and Louisa Joyce. aged two years. Funeral from the family residence, 493 North High street, at 2!, o'clock n. m.. Sun day, March 17. 2t KArjrriXLD On Wednesday. March 13. at 2 a. m , John KiUFriiLii, aged tbirty-eeven years, four moatha and thirteen days. runerai irom tne residence ot Adam Heintz, oorner of Friend and Fourth streets, on Friday, March 15, at 2 p. m Frien ls and acquaintances are invited to attend. 2t probable that Prince Battenberg will be chosen Prince of Bulgaria. The Emperor of Ruaiia has Bigned a charter authorizing certain New York capitalists to erect and operate grain elevators in lhat country. A special from Corfu reports that the Turks have devastated eight Christian villages in tbe district of Delvino. and mas sacred the male inhabitants. They also killed one hundred fugitive women and children on the seashore. The English CoobuI has gone to investigate the outrages. THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. The Loftiest Peak lu Ihe Andos Range Slutlsllcs or - Temperature.According to recent geographical sur veys, it seems that the Aconcagua Peak is the loftiest of the Andes range, and the highest in America, It is one hundred miles east of Valparaiso and nearly in latitude 32 deg. 30 min. south. Its actual height ia not positively and accurately known, but the measurements made by M. PisBis and subsequent scientists mako it certain that the elevation is between 22,400 and 23 900 feet above the waters of the sea. The French explorer made it 22,422, or four miles and 1302 feet over, which would be 998 feet higher than the snowy summit of Chimborsz), as Hum-bold measured the latter, when in 1802 the great German made his famous ascent of that mountain with Bonpland to a height of 19,286 feet. Aconcagua, seen from the Chilian seaport of Valparaiso, is shown only as a peak, towering above the other heights of the Andes at a distance of 100 miles or more inland, toward the sunrise. From the aea it presents, at a much longer range, a grand Bpectacle; but it is only from the east from' the upper country of La Plata in the Argentine Confederation that the vaBt height of thia mountain monarch, towering to the skies, is seen to the fullest advantage. From the town or city of Mendoza, fifty miles east of the mountain, the view must be as grand as that of any mountain on earth; for, owing to forbidding conditions, the highest mountains on the globe (in tho Himalaya range of the East Indies and Thibet) are not seen to the best advantage from any acceseible point of view yet at tained. Aconcagua has been called an extinct volcano, but the best examina tions vet made of its summit do not ap pear to bear out that idea. The recent observations, referred to on Wednesday at the meeting of the Geographical Society, make the height of the Chilian mountain 23,200 feet, and "probably" over that figure. At 19,000 feet Humboldt found it hard to breathe and his strength failing him, Mr. E. G-. Squier, the explorer of the mountains of the old Peruvian Incas, experienced similar sensations at an elevation of 16,000 feet, and his native com panion dropped from his borte, bleeding at the nose, ears and eyea. From the sea Chiniborazo usually presents a finer spec tacle than Aconcagua. The elevation ot Mexico s higheat mountain Popocatepetl or "smoking mountain" is nearly 5000 feet less than that of tbe Chilian peak, and Mount Shasta and Mount Hood fall short to about the same figure. Pike's Peak is about 9000 feet lower than Acon cagua. Mysterious Movement of tho Brltsu Fleet. By Cable to tbe Cincinnati Commercial.! The British Admiral has changed the anchorage of that portion of the fleet in the sea of Marmora to the Gulf of Ismid. Orders have also been issued for the Bes-ika Bay squadron to move up to Gallipo-li to join Admiral Commerell, second in command, This will add four heavy iron clads to the fleet inside the Dardanelles, and it remains to be Been whether they will be allowed to piss the forts. There is already serious uneasiness in Russia, where England's warlike preparations are regarded as foreboding tho intention of depriving the Russians of the fruits of their hard earned victories, and these movements of the fleet are likely to add to the feeling of distrust. I have the best authority for the foregoing information, and it is hinted that the Channel fleet, now waiting orders at Malta, will soon go on to reinforce Admiral Hornby in the Bes of Marmora. Negotiations as to the meeting of the Congress seem to make little progress, and alarmist tendencies begin again to manifest themselves. Law Against Flirting Burke, in the"History of Virginia says : "I find that the Governor was obliged soon after to issue a proclamation forbidding women to contract to two several men at one time. For women being yet scarce, and much in request, this offense was becoming very common, whereby great disquiet arose between parties, and no smalt trouble to the government. It was, therefore, ordered that the minister should give notice in his church that what woman soever should use any word or speech tending to a contract of marriage, to several persons at one time, although not precise and legal, yet so aa might entangle or breed scruple in their consciences, should for Buch offense, either undergo corporeal correction, or be punished by fine, or otherwise, according to the quality of the person so offending." ' A singular case of somnambulism oc curred in Carlisle, Wyoming county, a few nights ago. Miss Mahala Rose, a maiden lady of quite advanced age, deliberately jumped from a second story window in her night-clothes and barefooted, .struck on her feet "right side up with ore," and never awoke. She walked about the yard, and finally stepped into Borne water, which was too cold for old Morpheus, and he let up. The lady, upon finding herself in such a plight, called for admission to the house. Tiuuv'i mnirt nnrripd him to his moth er for punishment, Master Jimmy having pinched lier in me ince ho wevereiy wihi n was black and blue. "Jimmy, you've been a very naughty boy, and you must, promise never to pinch Pegsy again." "I promise," eaid Jimmy, with a roguish smile. "Promise what," asked his mother. "Never to pinch Peggy again where it will show," replied the future membor of Congrecs,